In 2008, I made the video “Ramifications”. It follows my passion about nature structures. Nowadays I am revisiting this work, adapting it to possibilities like VR and stereo and I have renamed it “Transmigration”, since this is a strong metaphore about evolution and stages in life

I had the honor to collaborate with the London Orchestra of the City, conducted by Chris Hopkins, to visualize the Prelude of Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, as part of performances taken place at the International Art Festival #Tribe17.
Conditions were not optimal, but I managed to sync my synaesthetic visuals with Chris performance.

My video, “Visus Sonitus I”, based on Einojuhani’s Rautavaara’s “Concerto for birds and orchestra, I movement”, seen at the background of the photo and in 3D with virtual reality Emoticono smile Exhibited in New York last December 8th to 10th 2015, at the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway as part of the Lumen Prize Finalists Global Tour

It’s an honour to be part of an exhibition with the great artist Beata Kozlowska. In Wellington, we will be showing our latest works next week, from the 5th to the 11th of December 2016 at the Thistle Hall Centre.

Opening:
5 December, 6.30pm – 9.00pm

Opening hours:
Tues – Sun, 10.00am – 6.00pm

“Weaving Light and Space” is a first New Zealand based collaborative art exhibition by two visual artists with artistic careers in the UK: Beata Kozlowska and David Moraton.

Theatre of colour and movement, is a collaborative project made in Toi Poneke Art Centre betweeen Beata Kozlowska and I. Our collaboration revolves around the concept of interdependence as we are showing how two artists can fully blend

My admiration for Einojuhani will always be alive, I will be eternally grateful for having had the chance to meet him, it will remain one of the most important moments of my life. As I have always felt our arts are vibrating by the same wavelength.

His Music will always exist inspiring and uplifting souls of present and future generations and my drive to honour his Art in a visual way has never been stronger. The second and third movement of “Cantus Arcticus” will have their visual equivalent.

Yesterday September 24th I had the pleasure to give the talk “Synaesthesia and Digital Art” at the Frontline Club, in the 2015 Winners’ Gala. It’s very rewarding to know that people enjoyed it and I could finally tell my story in a wonderf

Tomorrow I will be giving a talk “Synaesthesia & Digital Art” in London at Frontline Club in London, as part of a digital art seminar organised by the Lumen Prize, And after that the three main prizes will be announced. Very exciting! You can register here.

David Moraton is the video artist of the moment. He is currently focused on three-dimensional videos that are a faithful reflect of Contemporary Classical Music. David has a perceptual condition called synaesthesia. This means that when he hears sounds he gets to see involuntarily colours in his mind. So in his practice David projects this very personal chromatic experience of music and sound, as well as his philosophical vision of Nature.

It’s oficial, I am one of the 25 finalists of the Lumen Prize 2015. Yesterday it was announced in Vancouver, at International Simposium of Electronic Art (ISEA). That means, my video Visus Sonitus Iwill be shown in a year global tour exhibition in Shangai, New York, London and Wales and I opt for the winner’s prize at the end of September.

The mid gray color is the same in both cases, but looks brighter surrounded by black.
Yet it’s all a perception, an illusion.
We believe the illusion that we arr different, we feel different, depending on our life situation.

But the truth is, we remain in essence exactly the same.
We are not defined by the external, neither in space, nor in time.

Tschuang-Tse was a very rare apparition, a unique mystic in history of humankind. He brought, developed and spread Lao-Tse’s ideas throughout China. But in the dorf where he spent his last years, he was considered by many people a crazy old man.
Maybe this was because when someone spoke to him, he just answered, even before the other ended his sentence, “good good very good”.That’s why the situation was sometimes very embarrasing, as he didn’t hear at all even if someone was tellin

Finally I finished ‘Satori’, video and photographs exposed until end of December at the Center of Visitors in La Gomera. In the press section there are some articles about the exhibition and the I Biennial of Architecture, Art and Landscape of the Canary Islands where it’s integered.

‘Satori’ is a Japanese word that literally means ‘to understand’, and it’s used in the scope of the Zen and the Tantra to denominate a special moment of ‘illumination’ of the conscience. It is arrived through an inti

I’d like to show my list of colours for vowels and letters, which I have always seen withouth will or effort, by thinking or writing them.
A: gray white, B: orange yellow, C: da

David Moraton

Since I can remember, I have been able to see colours while hearing sounds and music. This is a perceptual condition called synaesthesia and it deeply influences my works. During the last years, I have created video animations that reflects visually what I hear, mostly Contemporary Classical music pieces or sounds of Nature. The last one "Visus Sonitus I" , based on the "Concert for Birds and Orchestra" by acclaimed composer Einojuhani Rautavaara, was finalist of Lumen Prize 2015.

I have also made video mapping installations that explores the concept of organicity, with recurrent visual elements as fluids, clouds, fractal strings, branches or birds flocks, also present in my early oil paintings.

My artistic concept tries to go beyond mental categories, to access an augmented state of consciousness where opposite concepts and perceptions blend. Each of my works is conceived then to raise a global sense of empathy and awareness, not only with the pure sensations that live in the here and now, but also, at a deeper level, with the mysterious and fascinating forces of Nature in constant motion and quest for balance.

Finally, I am also a lecturer and a professional in the film industry and work as Senior FX Technical Director, creating visual effects for movies such as Man of Steel, Rush, Thor: the Dark World, John Carter, Total Recall, Jupiter Ascending, Exodus or Avatar